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The State of the Trucking Market in 2021

GlobalTranz

Fewer labor resources are available to meet the rising demand in both the warehouse and in transit. ? Talent shortages, especially limited drivers, will exacerbate the capacity crunch and result in shortages across warehousing and transportation simultaneously.? . Increasing fuel costs also play into the available capacity woes.?

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Purchase Price Variance (PPV)! A Profit or Loss Opportunity?

Supply Chain Game Changer

Purchase Price Variance, or PPV, is a common term in the realm of Purchasing/Procurement and Finance. In my experience proactive, attentive, and detailed Purchase Price Variance (PPV) can make an incredible contribution to the profitability of a company. What is Purchase Price Variance (PPV)?

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Pushing the Supply Chain Reset Button

Supply Chain Shaman

Concurrent macro forces–material shortages, war, shifts in consumer buying patterns, logistics constraints, inflation/recession, and climate change– are reshaping today’s reality necessitating the need for a supply chain reset button. In addition, the warehouses are full and containers are being used for overflow storage.

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Driver Shortage, Driverless Vehicles, and Other Supply Chain Curiosities

Logistics Viewpoints

Currently, most driverless opportunities are limited to secure private zones or closed environments, such as warehouses, campus environments or last mile runs from depot to front door. What’s more, bots don’t require paychecks, benefits, vacations, training or other workforce overhead. Curiouser and Curiouser. In a word, it’s data.

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It’s Not About Chatbots: Getting Real on AI Usage In Real Life Logistics (AI Popup #5)

Freightos

And if the user has to enter the same data into a chatbot that they would enter into a pricing tool to generate a quote, then they’ll just use the pricing tool. The existing products in this area are priced competitively in relation to labor costs in developed countries. The model would be trained on our own customer data.

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Centralized Purchasing System – Key Benefits and Effective Strategies

Precoro

For most CPOs and CFOs, deciding on the right purchasing setup — centralized or decentralized — is no small task. In this article, we’ll explain what centralized purchasing is, the challenges it tackles, the benefits of centralized procurement, and the types of companies that can benefit most from it.

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This Week in Logistics News (May 20 – 26)

Logistics Viewpoints

This includes training materials to raise awareness of the risk of various kinds of parametric rolling, as well as tools such as videos and calculators to help prevent and, if necessary, manage such dangerous situations. Details of the negotiations have been hard to come by as both parties have vowed not to negotiate through the media.